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Eat for food or defend themselves? from phagocytosis to cellular cannibalism

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​​​​​Is the cellular cannibalism an other way to acquire the necessary nutrients in a nutrient poor environment? A set of results is commented in an opinion written by Marie-Odile Fauvarque, researcher at the Large Scale Biology Laboratory, and Stefano Fais (National Institute of Health, Rome) for the magazine Trends in Molecular Medicine.​

Published on 12 March 2012

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Fais S and Fauvarque MOTM9 and cannibalism: How to learn more about cancer by studying amoebae and invertebrates.Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2012

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